These Old Photographs Are Unlike Any You've Seen Before

Oh, the wonders of Photoshop.

Ever look at a photo and swear something in it moved? With talented artist Kevin Weir's images, your eyes aren't deceiving you. He takes old pictures from the Library of Congress's online archive and Photoshops them into slightly creepy, extremely realistic animated GIFs, or moving digital images.

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Weir has been creating GIFs since he was in high school, and spent a lot of his free time in college making black-and-white images once he knew the ins and outs of Photoshop. Weir shares his images on his Tumblr, Flux Machine.

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Weir's favorite subjects: "unknowable places and persons," from which he creates hauntingly good GIFs, like a ghost taking a man's soul, a woman turning into bats and a little girl creating fire in the palm of her hand and burning her own photograph.

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Having a Halloween party? We suggest having these GIFs pulled up on all the computer screens in your home.